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MENS: Israel Names New Australian Envoy
Friday, 22 December 2006, 9:17 am | Middle East News Service
It was only on a matter of time before Israeli envoy Tamir was to be replaced after his racist comments in an interview with Haaretz . Both the Israeli media and the Australian Jewish News reported that many members of the Australian Jewish Community ... More >>
Amos Oz: Have We Not Learned A Thing?
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 12:57 am | Middle East News Service
Several Israel commentators have speculated that in the annals of history Israel’s worst mistake for 2006 would not be the Second Lebanon War but its total rejection of Syrian President Assad’s peace offers. Ami Isseroff of the self-described Zionist ... More >>
MENS: Escalation In The Palestinian Authority
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:04 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments : The Australian Broadcasting Service’s website is reporting clashes between various Palestinian factions. It is a situation that has been brewing for a while now. I have been hoping to circulate an a analytical ... More >>
Middle East New Service: Nauru On Our Side
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:24 pm | Middle East News Service
Australians Reading this will be suitably amused: “The first secretary in the Australian Embassy, Jonathan Chew, gently but firmly set me straight. Nauru is an independent nation, he explained to me. He could assure me that Australia does not dictate to ... More >>
Middle East News: Bolton Resignation - 2 Takes
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:23 pm | Middle East News Service
The departure of John Bolton from the UN has generally been welcomed in both the United States and elsewhere. Opinion polls and the US mid-terms elections indicate falling support for everything Bolton stood for from supporting torture to the War ... More >>
Israelis Protest Beit Hanoun Atrocity
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 12:45 am | Middle East News Service
Sometimes it is better to start with the conclusion: Of course Israel has the right to protect its citizens. But that excuse runs thin when nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed to stop the firing of rockets that have not killed any Israeli Since ... More >>
Armitage Laments Lebanon Invasion
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 1:37 pm | Middle East News Service
There are several people of the “of-course-Israel-should-be-criticised-it’s-just-that-nothing-worth-criticising-has-ever-come-up” crowd on a discussion group that I participate in. They take a particular pleasure in forwarding articles about Israel from my hometown broadsheet, the Age. For some ... More >>
At Least 46 Palestinian Killed In Four Days
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:22 pm | Middle East News Service
It seems as if every day brings worse news from the Gaza Strip. The last count in Ynet had 46 Palestinians killed since last Wednesday. In fact there is more room left in the Palestinian hospitals’ mortuaries. More >>
Mystery Of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:08 am | Middle East News Service
This story has already created some interest in the Israeli media but just how serious it has been taken is yet to be seen with today being the start of the working week and with today’s edition of some of the dailies available in a few hours. More >>
Palestinian Filmmaker: End Israel Cultural Boycott
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 1:18 pm | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service Comments: A mirror image of the desire by some Israelis and their “right-or-wrong” supporters to tar all Palestinians with the same brush, exists on the other side. I encountered it myself on more than one occasion. There ... More >>
BBC - Heated Debate Over Use Of Torture
Friday, 20 October 2006, 11:05 am | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comment: This is one time Israelis must be thanking the one above that the BBC does not follow normal Israeli procedure. When “ordinary” question like support for daylight saving or for the war in Lebanon pollsters often ... More >>
ALP, Greens, Democrats Join To Support ME Peace
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:27 pm | Middle East News Service
A step forward from the ALP [Australian Labour Party], possibly in line with their firmer policy on Iraq. It is an open secret that the parameters of any genuine two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are more or less given. Essentially ... More >>
Israel Envoy: Let's Enhance Ties With 'Yellow Race
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service Comment: What kind of comment is necessary for this kind of utterances? What kind of ambassador in Canberra is not aware of Australia’s multiculturalism? As both an Israeli and an Australian I am too disgusted to continue. ... More >>
Methodology Of Lancet Iraq Study Defended
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service Comment: The methodology used by researchers from John Hopkins University in regard to the Iraq war’s casualties has unsurprisingly come under attack from the apologists for the war. Those of you who are interested in ... More >>
How Hezbollah Defeated Israel - Analysis
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service Comment: With the number of e-mails that this News comments I am simply amazed that no one has forwarded this article to me over the past three days. This is an astoundingly detailed analysis of the war which should be read by ... More >>
Israel Bars New Palestinians From Its Universities
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:18 am | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service Comment: At least some of the apologists for the Occupation feign concern for academic freedom as their main reason for their opposition to academic boycotts of Israel. But as I said before the best way of testing their sincerity ... More >>
Israel Used New Weapon Prototype In Gaza Strip
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 4:26 pm | Middle East News Service
For several months there have been reports circulating of a new weapon being used by Israel in Gaza. As a person committed to high scepticism I have tended to dismiss them especially since hard-left friends in Israel with contacts in the UN operation ... More >>
Sol Salbe's Middle East Round-up
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 7:39 pm | Middle East News Service
The introduction to last week’s column stated “things are quiet in the Middle East.” Yes they were indeed quiet in Lebanon and in Israel but in the Occupied Palestinian Territories they were far from quiet. As a venerable Palestinian friend ... More >>
Daily Briefing: Sol Salbe's Middle East Roundup
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:12 am | Middle East News Service
Things are quiet in the Middle East. Open any of this morning’s Australian broadsheets and the coverage of Israel, Palestine and Lebanon is minimal. There are good reasons for this situation. The Muslim world and that includes the majority of Lebanese and ... More >>
Salbe: The Daily Briefing - After The Lebanon War
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:53 am | Middle East News Service
Nothing in Israel’s second Lebanon war seems to have worked according to plan. Quite apart from the various military and social aspects, the post-war period does not seem to follow the pattern either. More >>
